Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iris Murdoch

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

Imogen Heap

I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds

Igor Stravinsky

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

J. K. Rowling

NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

Nathan East

Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.

Nate Ruess

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

Michael Aspel

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

Serena Williams

I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.

Michael Pitt

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

Sidney Lanier

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

Scott Stapp

Creed's sound is my sound.

Ray Charles

I can't help what I sound like. What I sound like is what i am. You know? I cannot be anything other that what I am.

Siobhan Fahey

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

Simon Van Booy

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

Sigmar Gabriel

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves

Neil Gaiman

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

John Wayne

Republic. I like the sound of the word.

Nigella Lawson

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

Norah Jones

Your limitations create your sound.

Nicole Kidman

I'm spontaneous. I jump in. I kind of like getting married and then getting to know each other; I know that it sounds incredibly strange, but to me, it's a more natural process.

Miranda Lambert

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

John Wooden

It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally.

John Ruskin

Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

Mary Timony

I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.

Martin Scorsese

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

Peg Bracken

When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about—more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

Maureen Johnson

You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.

Matt Ross

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

Mason Cooley

The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

Mark Ronson

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

Ted Cruz

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.